O'Leary skipping bilingual Edmonton debate

O’Leary says ‘bad format’ doesn’t allow for real debate

Kevin O’Leary says he’s skipping this Tuesday’s bilingual Conservative party leadership debate in Edmonton because party organizers refuse to change its format.

“I said from the beginning that it is a bad format to have fourteen people on stage answering the same question with no back and forth. It allows no time for ideas to be explained, or any real debate to transpire,” he said in a press release Monday morning.

O’Leary said his campaign tried to persuade the party organizers to change the format of the Edmonton debate to mirror the format at the Manning Conference debate on